The body of a poet is found in a sunless cellar.
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Where in the World Is Vittoria Colonna?
For a historical figure who seemed to be everywhere, there is startlingly little written about this Renaissance woman. More
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Richard White
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896. More
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Inspired by Catherine the Great’s 1767 assertion that law should promote general happiness, Jeremy Bentham brought his own massive law code with him to Russia in 1785 to present to her. But the single time Catherine visited the western district where the utilitarian philosopher had rented a cottage, Bentham remained inside—“stubbornly diffident,” according to an account—and the two never met.
The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971More Rule of LawGo to Issue Page >